Are you planning to cover some JNDI topics in your second edition or in any future editions. This topic is hard to find much about except for the online tutorial (sun?)

Regarding database access, the first volume (out now) covers only JDBC basics, transaction management, ORM frameworks and JDO, and Oracle/MySQL/Access setup and configuration. However, there will be a section on JNDI and DataSources in the upcoming second volume (that volume also discusses JSTL, Struts, and JSF). Cheers- - Marty